Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus 2 (CS600PK)

I bought this stylus for daily use. I do a lot of writing and miscellaneous drawing with Bamboo Paper but nothing that could be considered serious art. I've not yet used it with other drawing applications much. The pen itself is well built and clearly of good quality. I have not had any functionality problems with the pen itself but the software is definitely lacking at the moment; I expect that will improve with time so I can't hold it against the pen. The battery life is impressive. I end up using the pen for hours a day and the battery seems to almost not discharge. I've only plugged it in once since I've gotten it (just over a week) and I think I can go for at least another week.There seems to be a lot of misplaced hate for the pen right now. Things like drawing accuracy, button presses, and palm rejection depend on developers implementing the functionality in their applications. These are not features of the pen which only knows how to transmit its button presses and pressure levels, i.e., there is no transmission of positional information. Styli for the "iDevices" work by essentially tricking the device into thinking there is a finger on the screen. It is the screen that determines position. The accuracy of this technique is lower than that of devices like the Samsung tablets which have a Wacom pen layer in the screens. This gets worse with the newer pen-tip styli which seem to use some sort of field generator instead of using a special rubber on the tip. The accuracy challenges along with Apple building slight offsets into the interface to help finger-users makes it somewhat of a process to get applications to work with a stylus. Wacom provides a development kit that is to be integrated into applications so as that is updated, things will improve for those that have been having problems. Even then, individual developers must tweak the information from Wacom's system to be useful for their app. The best way to get this fixed would be to rate and comment on apps instead of the pens.When you first get this pen, you'll probably use Wacom's Bamboo Paper if you don't have another app with support yet. Bamboo Paper is nice enough although the 100 page limit per book is super irritating. The palm rejection isn't great but that's not much of an issue for me since I'm left-handed and don't tend to put my hand on the page anyways (because otherwise I'll get ink everywhere). Again, this is not a pen thing, it is a Bamboo Paper thing. I only mention Bamboo Paper since it is free and the pen will unlock some book types... unless you already bought them. Make sure to turn off multitasking gestures because Bamboo Paper doesn't seem to like those which may be an issue for some people. If you are left-handed, set the handedness setting otherwise your drawing accuracy will be terrible.

Just not very good, sad to say. Wacom usually makes quality products, but this just does not draw very well. Comfortable to hold and has great battery life, but it's almost impossible to draw a diagonal line without "staircaseing" and it's very inconsistent with its line positioning. Its decent for sketching, but for serious drawing it just doesn't stack up.UPDATE: I had originally rated this stylus at only two stars, but I have upgraded it to 4 because of recent improvements. Not so much in the stylus itself, but in the Procreate app's support for it. MUCH smother lines and more accurate placement. Almost as good as using an actual Cintiq. I was about ready to sell the stylus, but I will definitely be keeping it now.NOTE: This only applies to the Procreate app. Wacom did release a firmware update for the stylus that does improve it slightly across all apps (I'd give it 3 stars based on the firmware update alone) but the real improvement is in the Procreate update.

I’ve had this stylus for a few days. I will likely return it unless Wacom has some kind of magic advice to give me. Few customers wanted this to work as much as I did.I starting building my own capacitive styli shortly after the launch of the original iPad, before you could buy a commercial stylus. Now I probably own 25 styli for iPad. My favorite is the Wacom Bamboo stylus for iPad. In addition to my iPad styli I have a 21” Wacom Cintiq and I have 3 windows tablet pcs with Wacom tech. I am a huge Wacom fan. I long for a pressure sensitive Wacom experience on the iPad and that is why I have tried so many things including other active styli like those from Adonit. I do art and take notes on these devices. I’m also a product designer and UX guy and a general enthusiast of computing devices and natural interfaces.This latest product from Wacom is a beautiful piece of product design. Well packaged, presented, feels great… great promise. But it doesn’t deliver on the promise. IMO that is not Wacom’s fault really. Because the iPad only supports capacitive touch, getting these pen tips to register cleanly and accurately is incredibly difficult if not impossible. An electrical field needs to be generated at the tip to simulate a big finger, the pressure sensitivity has to be sent through Bluetooth or some other backchannel instead of in the screen layer itself like standard Wacom tech. The missed tolerances and millisecond delays stack up in these workarounds and the experience falls apart.What everyone needs to understand about iPad and pens is that the platform was deliberately designed to shun the pen computing experience. I won’t reference all the video and web links here but there are plenty of places for you to hear the tales of Jobs and crew deciding the iPad must be usable without pens - That the use of a pen on the platform indicated that the platform itself had failed. This strategy was powerful and ushered in an era of touch only devices and apps. By requiring that the ecosystem be touch only, and all apps use touch, it shifted the user base towards a new set of Ui standards. I can believe that if the iPad had included a pen or “digitizing” layer that the whole movement may have stumbled. So I am not going to argue that Jobs/Apple was wrong. Certainly the financial results of the company speak for itself. I think it was a brilliant strategy.But if you long for a precise, pressure sensitive pen experience on the iPad, just realize that the platform technology does not natively support it. Thus these product companies have to build odd workarounds. Some work better than others but they all fall way short of a device (like Cintiq or tablet PC) that have a digitizer layer built into the screen and the ability customize the offset for your own viewing position. If all of this is gobbledygook to you then just be forewarned that you may not like this Wacom product nor understand why a bunch of smart engineers can’t make it work better. You want digital paper that can catch the nuance of your personal handwriting and expressive doodles. Capacitive touch can never get closer than ¾ the way there. In the case of the new Intous Creative Stylus 2 there is lag in the stroke, the offset is fixed (to right or left handedness), the pressure is limited and not particularly precise, and because of the electrical field that’s generated around the tip to engage the capacitive layer of the iPad screen the tip can draw without touching. This is a problem towards making precise writing and drawing. I want the stroke to stop when I lift. And yes I turned of multi-gesture support in the iPad.Please understand that I can make nice paintings and sketches on the iPad with a rubber tipped or other styli. But it’s not the precise digital paper it could be. And I can sketch just as well with a $10 rubber tip as I can with this beautiful $79 pen. I understand the limits of capacitive touch but I wished Wacom had figured out how to solve around it.So I’ll give this 5 stars for being a beautiful product and for trying so hard to work around the platform limits. But it can’t overcome the zero star ability of the iPad to integrate a proper digitizer. So total score is 3 stars. Perhaps now that the iPad has become so successful Apple can reconsider the “no stylus” policy that is in the DNA of the platform.

Works great. I use it on my iPad with SketchBook. It takes some getting used to. An important setting is the Writing Style. This determines at what angle you handle the pen. At first I chose the wrong setting and the pen drew lines about a quarter inch away from the tip. Very frustrating. But when I had set it to the correct setting in SketchBook preferences (lower right checkbox in my case) it works perfectly. Of course I have to get used to drawing on a glass surface that has zero resistance. The pen glides quickly on the glass and it's a bit hard to control at first. It's like skating on ice! But once you get the hang of it, it's a joyful experience.

funciona exelente y tiene Buena calidad, lo unico es que de vez en vez debes ajustar para recalibrar el punto de la linea aveces escribe desfasado de donde escribes con el mismo

So far this stylus + iPad air is amazing!, IT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH iPAD AIR2. I almost made that mistake! Works well in Bamboo, Autodesk Sketchbook with Pro tools and Concepts app with expansion.This setup is a decent, less powerful, more portable alternative to the Wacom 13HD.

Llegó completa y antes de lo esperado. Es una pluma bastante buena aunque no tan exacta como esperaba. Buena y económica opción para empezar con dibujo digital.

I recommend this stylus, but if you are already an artist on physical media or with a graphics pad, I think you will be frustrated. But most of the fault lies with the iPad and the capacitive touch technology used, not with this stylus.I'm not an artist, so I don't have the hours of muscle memory others have. I found that yes, there is an offset from where you think the stylus is hitting the screen and where the mark starts. But after practicing (I made dashed lines and practiced making right angles from the segments) I was able to adjust my expectations. This can vary slightly from app to app. The Bamboo Paper app actually worked fairly well, in my experience. I also used Art Rage, which seemed slightly more accurate, but also had a tendency to start a line off the mark before tracking back onto the stylus tip, resulting in hooks at the beginning of my lines. This varied depending on how quickly or confidently I started. More confident is better.Others have noted the wavy diagonal lines. This is a problem with the iPad. The stylus point is so fine that it is hitting only one large detector at a time. If you used your finger, you'd hit several and an average would be made of the position, giving a smoother result. I found the waviness disappeared in both my apps if I made the lines more quickly and confidently. So practice will help here as well. Others have noted a delay in drawing the lines. I have an iPad Air 2 and this is still a problem, but it seems to be an app problem. I still found the delay if I turned off stylus support and just used my finger. There's just too much processing required.It is a hard-point stylus, so it will slide on the screen fairly easily. If you are used to paper this will probably be annoying, but I don't mind it. Again, I think this is something that you can get used to. It comes with a spare nib, but I suspect they last a while. The pressure sensitivity range was excellent, but again this depends on your app. In both of mine I was able to go from the lightest of lines to heavy marks without using too much force.Connecting the stylus can be a bit finicky. You have to be in the app first, and make sure the option for Bluetooth stylus is turned on (in Art Rage this is in the Settings app). Then you can press the side button to connect. With Bamboo Paper it walks you through the steps, but you have to press the tip to the screen at the same time you press the button. If you are using multiple drawing apps, you may have to shut down the last app (double tap Home key to bring up the list, then slide that app upwards to remove it from active memory).Physically, it is a nice weight and size, comes with a really nice case, and I like that it is chargeable rather than using batteries. However I found the charge port very tight with the supplied cable, and accidentally tore off the protecting cap when trying to remove the cable the first time since I had to pull very hard. And yes, I was careful about the orientation, though the USB connecter is very thin and it is hard to tell. A lightning connector would be great here! The side button is very easy to depress accidentally, but usually this has no dire consequences, depending on the app. These two problems dropped the stylus down a star.Interestingly, when you download the free Wacom Bamboo Paper app, it unlocks the creativity pack you would normally pay extra for once it detects your Wacom stylus. I actually like the app; it is simple, but comes with a variety of pen types that work well, and is set up to create notebooks filled with your work. Pinch and zoom was a bit challenging, though -- my only complaint.It's my only stylus so I'm hesitant to say it's the best one out there. But if you can live with the limitations imposed by your iPad, I think you will be happy.

Es cómodo pero es algo impreciso tiene buena sensación me gustaría que fuera un poco más delgado pero en general me gusta